Feb.8th, 2010: Several roads in Sheffield city center were closed after pieces of cast iron found in a builder's yard sparked a bomb alert. Police initially thought the pieces of iron were World War II tank shells and army bomb experts were called to remove them from the Sussex Street yard. A cordon was put in place and two small business premises were evacuated. Nearby roads were closed but they were later reopened.
During the war, nearby Fitzalan Square library staff and the public used the library basement during air raids, and many female librarians were on 'fire watch' on the roof in tin hats. Although the building itself was not bombed, Fitzalan Square was hit and the aftershock caused the library foyer's marble floor to crack. The crack is still visible today and runs almost the full length of the foyer.
People living near Cemetery Road in Dereham, Norfolk, were asked to leave their homes last Tuesday while the army disposed of a bomb from the war. No damage was caused by the controlled explosion but the immediate area was evacuated for safety reasons. Builders working on a new house in Dereham discovered the bomb on Monday afternoon. An army bomb disposal team from Colchester in Essex was called in, but they decided to wait for light on Tuesday before detonating the device. Last month, Colchester's bomb disposal team were called to 23 incidents, many involving old ordnance being dug up as new developments are built.
After all these years, they are still finding remnants of the Blitz.
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It's hard to imagine what living with the possibility of tripping over a bomb might be like. We have a lot of problems in our country, but here's one that we don't have to worry about when we let our children go out to play.
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